In the long run, electric vehicles can displace the oil that is refined into fuel for the internal combustion engine

Active and public transportation can just displace a bunch of gas consumers.

I would think capacitors would be better than batteries are grid scale? Particularly for the buffering you mention.

Metric space ships DO shoot lasers, mostly just for science or communications though. Star Wars space ships shoot turbo blaster, not lasers.

Metric space ships don’t shoot photos torpedo, but they do use photon IMUs. Star wars space ships shoot proton torpedos not photon torpedos (they may or may not use photon IMU for guidance)

now just consider it WWII in space.

Always has been.

Very cool!

Revenge of the Fifth

The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil

Oh no! Did we check under the mattress?

that has not been produced since the Iran war began nearly 50 days ago

Oh, we HAVEN’T lost it. It was just a complete win.

Timothy Zhan’s Thrawn trilogy came out 1991-93.

Then the Timothy Zhan Thrawn trilogy came out in 2017-19.

There’s also the 2020-21 Timothy Zhan Thawn:Acendency trilogy, but I haven’t read that one.

The best part about reading the Thrawn Trilogy, is reading the Thrawn Trilogy afterwards to compare them.

I know, there’s just a lot of misinformation fighting against wind power right now.

Yup but even then, using crude oil refined to lubictate a wind turbine for 12-18 months worth of power is a better use than burning it for a few seconds of power.

And people are working towards recycling waste lubricating oil back into lubricating oil. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/12/5/135

Mon calice, this is tellement useful!

https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/395/wind-turbine-lubrication

It is valid that a grid failure proof system is a bigger change to relationship with the grid.

But as someone with a 10x cost difference between on-peak and off-peak pricing, stored power certainly changes how I interact with the grid. My time of use use, and therefore my family’s own habits, are drastically changed. Not doing laundry 16h00-21h00 with a toddler was a rough go. So yes, my relationship with the grid has totally changed; in ways more than jsut my bill.

I’m not sure how that is a disadvantage compared to being on the power grid? If you are on the power grid, and the grid goes down, you also don’t have power.

What is this a disadvantage compared to?